At this very moment I am uploading 51 pictures to my flickr account! (rejoice!) There are pictures of the gay pride parade and some random old stuff that I should have posted a long time ago.
I've been feeling oddly uninspired and lame about my photography lately. It seems like I used to be able to take shots and be fairly happy with them and not have to change them very much at all before posting them for public viewing, but it seems like lately I've been having to correct them more and more to get something that I feel is actually worth sharing. I am constantly amping up colours and contrast and sharpness etc. Blah. I think it might have something to do with lightroom. A) it makes it so darn easy to enhance pictures like that and B) for some reason once lightroom actually fully loads a preview of your picture it looks all lame and washed out. For example, you import a picture into lightroom, click on it to get a preview and while it is rendering up the full size preview you can see that while blurry, the colours in your photo look pretty good and natural, but as soon as it's done loading the full preview the colours go all bland and crappy. I will give a prize to anyone who can tell me why this happens and how I can stop it from happening and ruining my fun.
In other news our friend Kim is in town this week to organize and throw her brothers wedding ceremony. Aline and Chris and I have been invited to photograph it, so that should be an interesting project for us all, plus I have 2 other possible projects comming up as well. Hopefully either before or with these I can become a bit more inspired and into it.
Oh yeah and people keep comming up to me at work and asking me to fix their computers and stuff. I have decided to start charging people for the privelidge but I'm not entirely sure how much I should be charging. Does anybody know anyone who is doing small IT contracting? Or what someone should charge for fixing up home computers etc?
Also, I'm sick, (thanks Chris, and sorry Aline).
